End to a painful saga.

A painful saga has come to an end. Justice has been inordinately delayed but not totally denied. The trial had begun only after Sheikh Hasina first became Prime Minister in 1996 and removed the legal barriers enacted by post-Mujib military governments to protect the killers. The process of trial came to a halt after Begum Khaleda Zia came to power in 2001. Better late than never. The court upheld the death penalty on all 12 convicts of whom one has died and six are believed to the hiding in other countries. Dhaka is trying to bring them back with the help of Interpol. Begum Khaleda and her men should also be punished for trying to sabotage the trial and launching a misleading campaign …